Easily Control the Lifecycle of Your Virtual Machines

Solid Features for a Reliable Infrastructure

Image Deployment

Deploy the image of your choice in a click with Instance creation. We support the most commonly used operating systems: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Arch Linux and Alpin Linux, as well applications like WordPress, Docker, GitLab and Nextcloud.

Security groups are stateful cloud firewalls allowing you to secure network connections. They let you define inbound or outbound policies for a group of cloud instances. You can set up drop or access rules on all TCP, ICMP and UDP ports. These rules can be applied to all IPs or only to a specific range.

Placement Groups

Placement groups let you decide where to place your cloud instances. You can create low-latency groups to locate your VMs as closely as possible and leverage network throughput at its best. You can also create high-availability groups to place your VMs on distinct physical hypervisors and maximize availability of your applications in case of an incident.

Snapshots

Snapshots allow you to back up and restore your cloud instances directly from the console or using our API/ developer tools. These backups can be used as point-in-time recovery in case of an incident or to create clones, replicas or VM fleets easily and quickly.

Flexible IPs

Each Instance comes with an exclusive flexible public IPv4. It can be attached and detached on-demand and migrated without any downtime to other resources, whether it is an instance or a Load Balancer. In addition, each Instance benefits from a full /64 IPv6 range.

DDos Protection

All our cloud instances offer anti-DDoS protection. This service continuously protects your platforms from denial of service attacks, including automatic mitigation of major attacks to limit the impact on your servers.

API, CLI & SDK

We designed a suite of tools to support developers in the deployment, configuration, orchestration and automation of infrastructures, whatever their size and type. Your infrastructure can be managed with our API and SDKs, using Terraform or with the scw command-line interface (CLI). You can also configure your instance at first start with cloud-init.

We ensure your services are always up and running. Our technical assistance is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer all your questions and to assist you. Simply open a new ticket in case of a problem. You can also reach our support directly by phone or to get faster responses if you upgrade your support plan.

Popular Use Cases for General Purpose Instances

High Traffic Applications

Our virtual machines have been designed to host your critical production environments as high traffic applications with a service level agreement (SLA) of 99.99 %. You can deploy servers in seconds directly using the console or the command-line interface (CLI), create fleets of cloud instances with Terraform and distribute your traffic with Load Balancer.

High Performance Computing

With high-end AMD EPYC vCPUs and local NVMe SSD storage, our General Purpose instances are ready to host your high computing workloads. You can use them for batch processing, parallel computing or data manipulation, whether it is one-time or recurring. You can scale up or down in a minute according to your needs.

Software as a Service

Our General Purpose virtual machines can securely run software as a service (SaaS). You can restrict access to your VMs using security groups and backup or restore your data in a few clicks. These data can also easily be stored on Block Storage or Object Storage.

Gaming Companies Trust Our General Purpose Instances

Aternos revolutionizes cloud gaming with instant horizontal scaling.

“Thanks to the Scaleway’s cloud instances we were able to reduce the waiting time for our users from several hours to just a few minutes. This experience really made all the difference for us.”

The Best Price-Performance Ratio on the Market

What Makes Our General Purpose Instances Standout?

High Availability

General Purpose Instances are ideal to deploy your infrastructures in production. With a 99.99 % service level, local storage replication and high-end performance, they ensure the high availability of your services.

European Cloud

We are proud to be one of the major European cloud providers. All our services are located within the European Union and protected by its regulations. This allows us to offer you a sovereign and GDPR-compliant cloud platform.

Unlimited Transfer

We will not charge you for the inbound and outbound transfer of these virtual machines, which stay free and unlimited. This allows you to grow your business without having to worry about costs. Your expenses are always predictable.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is my General Purpose Instance located?

The whole Scaleway platform is deployed in our own datacenters, protected by biometrical access control systems and by our own 24/7 on-site technical and security staff.
They are located in Paris, France and Amsterdam, Netherlands.

What is the ImageHub?

Scaleway’s ImageHub is a catalog of system images that allow you to deploy, manage and scale your favorite applications in seconds, from image templates.

How can I connect to my General Purpose Instance?

You can connect to your General Purpose Instance through SSH communication protocol. For additional security, you can restrict the access only to your local IP using security groups.

Do I have to power off my instance to take a snapshot?

General Purpose Instances support hot snapshots. This means you can perform a snapshot while your instance is running. Hot snapshots allow you to create a point-in-time backup without downtime. Note that: hot snapshots can potentially lead to inconsistent data or data loss. Before taking a hot snapshot, you should always sync the data on your disk and stop IO-intensive processes. Whenever possible, you should take a cold (instance powered off) snapshot.